Sign Now: Pregnant and Nursing Women Deserve Science-Based Nutrition Standards

Of all wealthy nations, the U.S. ranks dead last in healthy pregnancy and birth outcomes – and outdated federal nutrition policy is a big part of why. A women's nutrition company is now taking that fight to Capitol Hill, anchored by a public petition urging Congress and key federal agencies to overhaul pregnancy and breastfeeding nutrition standards that haven't been meaningfully updated since 1941.

Guidelines Built on the Wrong Data

The nutrition recommendations currently shaping prenatal care were built from data collected on roughly one million people – fewer than 5% of whom were pregnant or breastfeeding. Most were men. Over 350 studies have since shown that women's nutritional needs during pregnancy are far greater than current federal policy reflects, yet the guidelines still haven't caught up with the evidence-based maternal nutrition research that has been accumulating for decades. The result is a system where the most nutritionally vulnerable people – pregnant and nursing mothers – are being guided by standards that were never really designed with them in mind.

Policies Stuck in the Past

The gap between modern science and federal standards may be directly contributing to America's troubling record on maternal and infant health.

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One Signature Can Push for Change

The campaign – backed by a full-page New York Times ad – calls on policymakers to ground their recommendations in current, population-specific prenatal nutrition research rather than data that predates the polio vaccine. Pregnancy and breastfeeding are among the most nutritionally demanding phases the human body goes through, and the science is clear that current standards aren't cutting it. Women deserve guidelines that actually reflect their biology and the realities of modern motherhood – not a decades-old framework that treated them as an afterthought. Signing the petition is a direct call for Congress to treat postpartum and maternal health policy as the urgent public health issue it is.

Your Voice Matters Here

Updating federal guidelines to reflect modern, women-specific research could reshape how prenatal and postpartum care is approached for millions of women each year.

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